Posts by hessi

  • Post Your Pic Extravaganza

    video extravaganza:

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    i am in this video a few times.

  • Source reflections problem

    back in my days reloadallmaterials failed by producing several errors. the changelevel workaround was the way to go.

  • Jake Martin - Level Designer

    Quote from JakeMartin

    The thumbnails and the main pictures are actually the same. Like I said in the previous post, I took 1920x1080 screenshots and the css scales them down and populates both the thumbnail area and the full image area. I feel like I'm just going to change the website anyway so that'll all be taken care of.I'm not sure what you mean by it not bouncing off your chair. Please just be straightforward. I'm here for the criticism, no matter how brutal.

    Thanks!

    i meant that your visual work is not that much exciting that it makes me jump through my apartment. it is ok and solid, but nothing too special.

    oh and btw: using css to scale things is not reducing bandwidth. it is just instructions to the browser on how to render the content which keeps the same (data) size. just as a side note for future websites.

  • Jake Martin - Level Designer

    man, your thumbnails are over 170kb each! that is too much. make separate thumbnail images in exactly the resolution you need and use an average compression. and besides a 450x326 image doesn't need 170kb! 50kb would totally do the job as well. even less would be ok.

    loading this url (http://www.jakemartin.net/mba.html) in my browser did result in 2.07MB data being transferred in around 20 different files. you could speed things up by reducing the number of images. for example you could use clever css and a single collection thumbnail to create your thumbnail buttons. but reducing the overall filesize for your images would be the first step.

    content wise i can't say much, because it looks ok, but it doesn't bounce me off my chair as well...

  • Counterfeit game (Lugaru) on App Store

    well actually you can't distribute open source software that easily in the app store. its not been to long since VLC was taken out of the store because of that (i am not talking about the vlc remote. i am talking about video playback for any videoformat you can play in your pc version of vlc.)

    another example is the scummvm. we all know it runs perfectly fine on the iphone, but the licensing prohibits a release on the app store.

    shame on apple, shame on open source licenses and shame on those software thiefs.

    gosh, i am really pissed about the software world. there is so many unnecessary conflicts.

  • What have you purchased recently?

    bought a new replacement lense to make my really old kit lense obsolete. the new one has a constant 2.8 aperture (old one had 3.5 to 4.5 depending on the focal length) and almost identical focal length. bonus: the new lense has a built in image stabilizer and USM focus motor. my old lense didn't have that.

    i have to wait for better weather to make some sample shots, but as any photographer knows: 2.8 on a zoom lense is pretty much the limit where you can get.

    picture:

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  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from luque

    Not a screenshot but a trailer Worked on this 6 months ago when I was still in school. Wanted to make a full custom game with 6 people that had no or little experience with UDK.

    I have worked on the first map VolcanoIsland.


    Game features 3 classes, bomb planting/defusing and more!

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    i like the look. gameplaywise it seems like a clone of team fortress, but that's okay with me. good job!

  • Non-industry employment thread!

    why change to web applications:

    i work on enterprise web applications -> much more well paid than mobile applications or games. of course money isn't everything and you could say "it's not as much fun as games", but that is not true. it can get pretty funny, if you take a look at legacy code so i get more money and i have the same amount of fun. win.

    which IDE:

    i use eclipse with several plugins. jboss tools, svn plugin, mylyn for integration with the ticket system...

    the development process is also supported by maven (serious: who works without it when working with java code?)

  • Non-industry employment thread!

    i work for a software developer in bonn (former capital city of west-germany). we make mostly web-applications in java for germanys biggest telecommunication enterprise.

    btw my work history is as follows:

    2005 game graphics

    2008 game graphics

    2009 mobile applications

    2010 teaching at the uni (limited time contract)

    2010 web applications